Yi Shun Lai

May 31, 2024 | medium.com | Yi Shun Lai

By Yi Shun Lai From drafting to marketing, this project will be differentPhoto by Angelina Litvin on Unsplash I'm the author of three books (two novels and a memoir). I believe every book project is different, but after three published books (and two more complete drafts hiding in my virtual desk drawer until my brain tells me it's the right time for those stories), I understand...

May 16, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Mandy Shunnarah |Yi Shun Lai |Corinne Leong

During my second year of teaching in Taiwan, a tenth-grader stopped me mid-class to ask whether it was possible that the meaning of texts was not as subterranean as he’d been led to believe, that perhaps we were just imposing layers of meaning onto things that were just things. He was fifteen, a mathematician, accustomed to the lucidity of proofs. Never mind that it was a common question, a literature-class cliché; it catapulted the class into action.

Feb 29, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Yi Shun Lai

What if a woman had been on Ernest Shackleton's ENDURANCE expedition in 1914? Li Shun Lai creates just this scenario, and narrator Jade Wheeler steps up with just the right blend of moxie, defiance, and wit to bring Clara Ketterling-Dunbar to life. Clara is an 18-year-old American suffragist who travels to England to fight for the vote with Emmeline Pankhurst.

Jan 11, 2024 | simonandschuster.com | Yi Shun Lai

About The Book A teen’s fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew’s Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical novel told in journal entries perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen and The Downstairs Girl. November 1914. Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute—a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent.

Jan 10, 2024 | bookriot.com | Tia Williams |Yi Shun Lai |Sangu Mandanna |Xochitl Gonzalez

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